S.B. No. 1290
AN ACT
relating to authorization for school districts to provide mentors
for teachers assigned to a new subject or grade level.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 21.458, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
(a) Each school district may assign a mentor teacher to each
classroom teacher who has less than two years of teaching
experience in the subject or grade level to which the teacher is
assigned. A teacher assigned as a mentor must:
(1) to the extent practicable, teach in the same
school;
(2) to the extent practicable, teach the same subject
or grade level, as applicable; and
(3) meet the qualifications prescribed by
commissioner rules adopted under Subsection (b).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1290 passed the Senate on
April 6, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 2009, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1290 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 26, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 143,
Nays 0, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor